stretcher

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Someone or something that stretches.
2. isim A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.

   “This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.”

3. isim A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.

   “A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.”

4. isim A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
5. isim A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.

   “The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately”

6. isim A piece of timber used in building.
7. isim A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
8. isim A board against which a rower places his feet.

   “Directly the oar has been disengaged from the water, all pressure on the stretcher ceases, and the strain of the recovery of the body is eased by a slight pull with the feet on the straps of the stretcher.”

9. isim One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
10. isim A penis, especially a long penis.
11. fiil To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

    “Claire Elise Tisdall, a volunteer nurse working in London, watched as a soldier was strechered past her one night.”